Resume

Christopher Farrell

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Upper Arlington, OH [email protected] 567-204-9585 in/chrispfarrell chrispfarrell.com

Summary

  • Proven leader who specializes in creating and mentoring teams to deliver at very high levels.
  • Near 100% track record of on-time, on-budget project delivery.
  • 2 years of AWS development experience including containerized deployments and Infrastructure as code.
  • Seasoned Public Speaker with dozens of presentations at conferences and user groups.

Experience

Senior Technical Manager

OCLC
2023–2024
  • Managed and led developer teams for OCLC products including: CONTENTdm, Digital Collection Gateway, Digital Archive, Meridian, and Worldcat Entities.
  • Formed a new 6 developer OCLC internal team from scratch, including recruiting and onboarding, to take over development for CONTENTdm.
  • Led Redhat modernization efforts to upgrade 240 legacy servers across 3 applications and 20 application layers in only 4 months.

AppDev Practice Area Manager

Fusion Alliance
2010–2023
  • Managed a team of 20-50 consultants including recruiting, sales support, technical interviews, mentoring, training, performance evaluations, and compensation reviews with management allocation of 10-20% of my job duties.
  • Architected the Engage reference framework that Fusion Alliance used on 10+ client engagements with 100% on-time delivery.
  • Developed a Federated Single Sign On (SSO) framework using Windows Identity Foundation that was leveraged by 4 large scale projects.
  • Led development of multiple greenfield, cloud-native, $1 million+ projects including a Smart home solution for Centerpoint Energy, a debt management system for Apprisen Financial, and a claims processing system for Safelite AutoGlass.
  • Led multiple engagements with Primary Financial to modernize and enhance the Azure based SimpliCD application that handles $6-7 billion/year in asset trades.
  • Developed a payments processor for Garretson Resolution Group that paid out > $100 billion in class action lawsuit claims in the first year. The payments processor exceeded performance requirements by 90% and had zero reported production defects or issues in the first year.

Manager/Lead Application Developer

CorpCommGroup, Inc
2004–2010
  • Developed public websites, intranet, and extranet applications for over 50 clients across many industry verticals.
  • Led the company to back-to-back record quarters within 1 year of promotion to management including growing the team size by 300%.
  • Created the company's first product which allowed for faster delivery of common projects while achieving 90%+ margins.

Education

Bachelor of Science in Business Administration
Bowling Green State University
2004
Specialization in Information Systems Audit and Control (ISAC)
Bowling Green State University
2004
Specialization in Management Information Systems (MIS)
Bowling Green State University
2004

Skills

.Net Framework/Core (20+ years)
WebForms, MVC, WebAPI, console apps, Windows services, WinForms, WCF, Windows Phone, SignalR.
Database
SQL Server (20+ years), PostGreSQL, SQLite, Azure SQL, SSRS, SSIS, SQL Server Profiler.
Azure (12 years)
App Services, Web Roles, Worker Roles, Web Jobs, Websites, Storage, Virtual Machines, Function Apps, Logic Apps, Queues, Service Bus, Azure AD, Azure B2C, Key Vault, AppInsights, EventHub, API Gateway, Azure Scheduler.
AWS (2 years)
Fargate, CDK, Secrets, RDS, S3, SQS, Lambda, Cognito.
Testing
NUnit, XUnit, MSTest, Rhino Mocks, FakeItEasy, Moq, NSubstitute, Selenium, Microsoft Playwright, Should.